The number of new potholes reported to Powys County Council fell last year.
Figures supplied by the authority to car selling comparison website Motorway.co.uk after a Freedom of Information request showed that new potholes reported in Powys fell from 609 in 2018 to 286 in 2019.
That is a decrease of 53 per cent, more than half the number which were reported across the county in the previous year, with Powys seeing one of the biggest falls in the country.
Potholes, the cause of millions of pounds of damage to vehicles every year, fell by more than a quarter last year across the UK overall according to the council data analysed by Motorway.co.uk.
More than 100 local councils, including Powys, responded to the FOI request submitted by Motorway in February 2020.
Councils were asked for the total number of new potholes reported in 2018 and 2019.
The figures showed that potholes reported by council officers and the general public fell by 26 per cent last year, with more than eight-in-ten (84 per cent) councils seeing a drop in pothole numbers.
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